Basketball columnist's tip

Perhaps it's good to remember that sometimes the best move may be no move at all.

Ramuma

As I was about to restart my studies, got totally derailed by a song, heard on the radio. At first I thought - what a genuine and beautiful song; afterwards - heck, it's in Lithuanian! It was some listeners choice broadcast where they play everything-whatever the listeners have advised/sent. They didn't name the artist, but luckily the multiple repetition of the song name in it made it possible to look it up and google it out :).

The lyrics are poetic, but the same time abstract and fundamental enough that it takes little effort to see the resemblances with the Latvian, so I couldn't resist translating it in a quite literal manner. Kinda - read between the lines :)!

Tarp traukinių bėgių aguona žydėsiu,
  Starp traucošamies vilcieniem magone ziedēšu,
Akliems mašinistams skirsiu dainas
  Aklajiem mašīnistiem atšķiršu dziesmas
Giedosiu, giedosiu, giedosiu, giedosiu,
  Dziedāšu, dziedāšu, dziedāšu, dziedāšu,
Nors jie niekada nesupras.
  Kaut arī tiem nekad nesaprast.

Tarp traukinių bėgių aguona žydėsiu,
  Starp traucošamies vilcieniem magone ziedēšu,
Ramybėje saugosiu kates numuštas.
  Rāmībā saudzēšu kaķus nomušītus.
Linguosiu, linguosiu, linguosiu, linguosiu,
  Līgošos, līgošos, līgošos, līgošos,
Kol rudeniai plyšaus ir verks į balas.
  Kamēr rudens plīsīs un raudās pārtopot purvājā.

Kai ateis mano mirtelė,
  Kā atnāks mana nāvīte
Ramuma ramuma ramu
  Rāmībā, rāmībā, rāmībā
ramuma ramuma ramu
ramuma ramuma-a...

Daydreaming

  Just took a nap, and as it frequently happens in those 5 minute naps, you experience some dense dream - not the one with a story line, but with some sort of intense action. The one that is close to throwing you out of the bed once you awake. Like just now - dreaming of running and eating some meaty stuff from folly in a wind and apparently being quite drunk, as I started to spin in an accelerating pace and the tearing off particles of folly were falling off and flying around. My reality check woke me up before eventually I was about to hit the ground. Before that I managed to get concerned about the garbaging the environment with the uncontrollable folly scatters. Yeah think green :)!
  Ok actually the story isn't about that. I was just pondering where is that fine line between the observations of your ˈconsciousness and subˈconsciousness and ultimately - whether our brain realizes when does that switch happens - does the picture always match the sound? Can we for sure say that at no point our subˈconsciousness doesn't take a driver seat when we are awake? It's no wonder that many people claim seeing or hearing things when being tired, exhausted, or in some unrest mental state - their subconsciousness just takes the lead as the ˈconsciousness can't take the load no more.

Lebensmittel - lifedrugs

Hey, there's too much life in your sugar!

Asking for an extra credit?

The job is harder when you don't know how to do it

Sometimes you better be lucky than good

Life's back-to-backs

Hey, stop the tape, I've already seen the movie!

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"I wish I had more time to work on it" = "I wish i didn't do everything else but this"

perspective

Jealousy is a drive when turned the right direction

options

You mean well by leaving the doors open when you leave, but what if they don't want that choice?

Nice smiley :)

set

Yeah, of course I have a new year's resolution - not to give in on creeps. Worthwhile or none.

īzī

Easy life? The one without a choice.

So I left you with the girls that came your way

One of my past revelations - Magic Numbers - today just ran into my mind to lookup for some vids. At first it seems like some cheesy Christian rock, but then you get totally hooked.

My point of view is usually somewhere outside my brain

Annoyance

When listening once again to people that beef on everything, you just want to tell them - if you can't make anything your way then just suck up on it!

Instant Latvian hero-celebrity

A latvian guy Jānis Krūms just became an instant celebrity-hero as being the one who helped in rescuing passengers of an airplane that miraculously crash-landed without any victims in Hudson river in New York last afternoon. The airplane apparently shortly after taking off flew into a flock of geese and got some of them in both of the engines that made them stop almost simultaneously.
What got the guy on the news is the photo he took and posted. It has been republished by many media around USA now:

Here's an interview with that Latvian guy. It's funny how the interviewer adjusted her pronunciation of his name from a mediocre American-like to a decent almost correct one - pronouncing the vowels long where she should have.

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

I'm MP-Complete - Mess Complete

They're bloody everywhere!

P.S. Stolen from Benjamin's album :)

Ultimate teasers

When at last you're keeping it real and overlooking no-nos, your dreams start to hit on you.

Läti Disko

You know, sometimes you get your poison back - our northern neighbors have made a song about the crisis in Latvia, reading the translation in Latvian it's surprising to see how much they get to hear about the consequences of the crisis and the actions the gov is taking, for example, VAT increase and the cut on bureaucrat salaries :). Though some parts like going short even of tins and repeated usage of handkerchiefs are a bit of a stretch :).
The softest rhymes in the song go like:
If you're doing bad
And you're about to complain,
Then take a look at latvians,
they are doing way much worse

Disbeliever's strike back

When the life throws you into the snow and tries to kiss you all over your face, you kick its ass, bury it in the snow, dump it and run away, run your ass off.

Life is a language in which being fluent has nothing to do with comprehension.

3 the most common parrots in Canberra

As I've mentioned for multiple times, the first thing that you notice there in Australia in environment around you is the amount of the wildlife around you - in particular - birds. Of course there are many more, but those are the ones you're likely to run into every single day, not trying much. The most common bird is megpie - a vicious, raven sized bird that attacks the pedestrians and cyclists in order to protect their children in the nest, here's the warning. And taking pictures of megpies would be like taking pictures of pigeons - so I have none :).
Parrots tend to hang around the driveways and green zones in city's suburbs. This one is cool cos they are all with heads and hair up.

Those ones are at my house where I lived in - the most regular guests at the surroundings.

Those are the largest parrots in Australia - about at the size of a chicken - the Latvians I met in Sydney said that they do the most of the damage when their lemons are coming to ripe - just bite in all of them and throw them to the ground.

And here are some of the other birds and bugs I ran into when having the camera with me.

Speech still is silver

It's kinda hard when you start talking while not conducting the directions of your speech, but the same time not being able to float around the topic and get away being a bit sloppy on it. Your utterance eventually hangs up on a confusing halting point where you don't know what you actually meant and the listeners don't know how to react on you incomprehensible sequences of utterances.

Perpendicularities

Person who expresses a true interest about the other person, makes a step closer to the self exploration.

Heading to the magic 100

As I stepped on the scales couple of days ago, I couldn't believe eyes, seeing the number 96,5 kg - beating my previous record by 6kg. It's not like I hadn't observed the changes in my frame - less muscles - more fat, but I didn't expect anything that extreme - since the September it's 7kg up and I guess - counting. Likely it's a consequence of halting the most of my physic activities and exercising when going to aussie, but on the other hand it could be a part of something bigger - like a steady change of the body structure aka maturization - smthn like growing of the body hair on the chest :D. So I may just need to build up on that, since the 90 mark is already outshone by far, now just working it the right way. No it's not that the most popular new years resolution to start to exercise the new year - that was the plan ever since I went in a more passive mode.

Electric feel

Quite awkward I had missed out on the Electric feel for that long, balancing on a fence between disco legacy and "the new sound". Named the album of the year by mtv2, so I had to remark this somehow :).
Since I pulled myself together for posting on music, then I gotta mention being a bit blown by an aussie jazzy prodigy Gabriella Cilmi - maybe not that much the music (which nevertheless is great), but appearance already as a complete artist, standing her own ground at the age of 16. I wonder whether they use the word sanctuary outside the Australia referring to the place to keep the animals :).